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I met Peter Doherty today!  I really love his books.

He was invited by Monash to give a talk for SCI2010, which I did the unit last year.  A friend told me he will be coming, and I went to the lecture theatre there.  While waiting outside the lecture hall, there came Peter Doherty, and he seemed lost.

I felt excited, and I went to talk with him.  Though it was not a long time, but our conversation covered Malaysia’s recent election results, Malaysia education system and universities and many others.  A brief talk with him totally change my perception that he only talk about T cells.  In fact none of our conversation cover anything related to immunology.

His talk in the lecture is inspiring, and also not boring at all.  There was something he said in the lecture that I can’t be more agree with.  “Every science has its own language.”

He is the first Nobel laureate I talked with.  It’s pretty exciting.

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